noel  | 2007-07-05
Server side CVS Cop
CVS Cop is policy enforcement program, called by the CVS administrative files, commitinfo, loginfo, taginfo, and verifymsg. As part of it’s functionality, it can deny CVS actions, emit warning messages to the CVS client command line, or launch external scripts, based on regular expression matches in its configured rule set. CVS Cop reads tags within <ruleset> from the outside in, stopping if a <match> fails. So in this case, if CVS Cop is running in commitinfo mode and the user name is not one recognized, the <deny> rule is reached, which sends a message and causes the CVS commit to fail. What can I say, the guard dog of CVS.